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Yahoo! Personals and Clorox teamed up to survey more than 3,000 people about how cleanliness affects relationships and determined that, in the dating world, cleanliness is important.

Almost one-third of respondents (32%) found a person’s domestic cleaning habits are very important or a deal-breaker when it comes to selecting a partner.

More people would rather date a germ freak (65%) than a complete slob (35%).

Six out of ten respondents consider cleaning compatibility to be as important as sharing common interests.

Over one-third of respondents said their dates had to be both neat and clean and the majority (92%) felt that had to be at least neat or clean.

The survey also showed once an individual leaves the dating world, cleanliness remains an important factor, but contradictory cleaning habits don’t necessarily equal the end of the relationship:

One in 10 respondents have ended a relationship due to domestic cleanliness incompatibility

Interestingly enough, the general perception that men are the ‘dirtier’ sex was also proved false by the survey, with men and women responding at equal proportions to almost all of the questions, including:

Q: “When do you do your laundry?”
A: Both the majority of men and women responded, “Once a week, my laundry day!”

Q: “How often do you clean your toilets?”
A: The majority of both sexes answered, “Once a week.”

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Various factors have to be considered when evaluating the cleanliness or sloppiness of the male of the species. When in the formidable (Early hormone onset) years, the male tends to keep a fairly neat domicile because he must always be prepared for the chance he may drag a female home and get lucky. Those who do not act this way, either must expect not to get lucky often, or lower their standards by settling for bottom feeders (the Onslow factor).

Once a relationship begins, the sloppy nature of the male re-asserts itself and the female finds that she is dating a totally different creature. This is his mother’s fault because she has programmed him to be so helpless that once out of the nest, he has little choice but to find a substitute for her, but with benifits. Any male that is compusively neat must have his actual interests in females held suspect and may be hiding the fact (even from himself) that he may be gay.

The “dirtier” sex… ? I’m not sure about who is or isn’t, but a lot of women describe the condition of the womens restrooms at work and say you wouldn’t believe how disgusting some women are. I’ve seem some things in restrooms that are pretty disgusting too, but I think that they were the “doings” (pardon the pun) of one sick individual.